Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Animation, The Neverhood, Brickfilm, List of stop motion films, List of stop motion artists, Clay animation, Go motion, Pixilation, List of films featuring clay animation, Light writing, Still-Motion, Brickfilms LLC, Clay painting, Toonloop, Xyzoo Animation, Model animation, Object animation, The Eagleman Stag, Direct manipulation animation, Chuckimation. Excerpt: This is a list of Stop-Motion films divided into 3 sections; List of Stop-Motion Feature Films, Stop-Motion/Live Action Features (mainly for special effects) and Notable Stop-Motion Shorts. For films made using puppetry (in other words, using puppets but not animation), please go here. Movie databases: Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods. "Animation" discovered from the latin name anima, the "animating principle", the vital force inside every living creature. Five images sequence from a vase found in Iran An Egyptian burial chamber mural, approximately 4000 years old, showing wrestlers in action. Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion. It does, however, indicate the artist's intention of depicting motion.Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion. A 5,000 year old earthen bowl found in Iran in Shahr-i Sokhta has ...